Hand-stamp



H. S. FOLGER.

HAND STAMP.

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1,356,374; Patented Jan. 25,1921

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HARRY S. FOLGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAND-STAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Application filed May 6, 1918. Serial No. 232,725.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. Foncnn, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand- Stamps, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to hand stamps and has for its object a modification of the stamp mount so that it will become an efficient card holder without the addition of parts, and will also indicate by the sense of touch as well as by vision, which is the front and which is the back of the stamp.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an end elevation showing the parts vertically separated from each other but otherwise in the relative position which they occupy in the stamp when in use; and

Fig. 2 is a plan of the card with lines of folding and hole for handle shown in dotted lines.

In said drawings, 10 is an ordinary wood mount modified by saw cuts Hand 12, and the removal of part of the wood outside of these cuts. The rear cut 11 and the front cut 12 are of different depths from the upper surface of the mount, and the upper part of the wood outside of these cuts removed so that the upper edges of the lips 13 and 14 are substantially the same height above the bottoms of the cuts 11 1110.12,

but different distances below the remaining 7 top surface of the block 10. The unequal heights of the lips 18 and let serve as a visual indication of front and rear sides of the, stamp. They also serve as a tactile indication which may be employed in the dark or at any time without looking at the stamp.

The card is shown at 15, and the corners 16 are represented in Fig. 2 by the dotted lines also marked 16. The dotted line 17 of Fig. 2 represents the hole through which will pass the tenon 18 of handle 19, when said tenon is driven into the hole 20 of block 10. The edges of the card outside of the corners 16 project into the cuts 11 and 12 and are held in place by the lips 13 and 14:. The handle 16, when put in place, holds the central part of the card against the upper face of the block 10 and with its edges in said cuts. 7

Card holders for wood mounts have heretofore been made by adding some partsto the mount. It is to be observed that I accomplish the desired result by making some easily made cuts in the standard mounts, and without the addition of parts. .Also, that the card has its edges confined in grooves or channels, and that the superficial surface of the card inside of these bound edges is more than large enough to receive a print of the matter existing on the stamp face 21. This result is attained by reason of the fact that part of the exposed surface of the card is over the top of the mount 10, and part on the front surface above the lip 14:.

What I claim is: 1

A stamp mount having card receiving grooves in the front and rear faces thereof,

said grooves being so formed that part of a card therein will be exposed on the top of the mount and part on the side thereof, and a handle projecting through a hole in said card and removably attached. to said mount, said handle serving to retain said card with its edges in said grooves, and said card being freely removable when said handle is detached.

HARRY S. FOLGER. 

